No Place Like Home

A middle-grade novel by James Bird about homelessness and hope.When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren|t guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don|t welcome overnight stays.Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting. Emjay has taken to disappearing for days, slowing down the family|s progress and adding to their worry.Then Opin finds a stray dog who needs him as much as he needs her, and his longing for a stable home intensifies, as his brother|s reckless ways hit a new high. Opin makes a new friend in the shelter, but shelters don’t allow dogs…Will anything other than a real home ever be enough?